Reply #34: Me too.

[OnionPatch]

Actually, my mom was a single mother and my sister and I cut out of school regularly. She was frustrated to no end. She had to work every day to keep a roof over our heads, she could not sit and guard the door of the school all day. She told the principal and he said, "Even if you could, there is more than one door in this school." She tried very, very hard to keep us in school. It was the single biggest frustration of her life, I think. I wouldn't judge these parents too harshly.

(BTW, We have since apologized profusely to our poor mother for being such rotton brats. :()